"It is beautiful - but, sorry, - I have absolutely No ideas what it is.
I will be interested to know if anyone can identify it, so we know what it is, though. I do hope someone knows and will tell us!!!!!"

A neighbor gave me this and said it was her grandmother's used for tatting. Well I know that is NOT what it is, but the lacy pattern and the bobbin-like shape of the handle makes me think it was part of something someone devised to work with lace. It has a threaded post on the opposite side that would have been screwed into something. Has anyone ever seen anything like it? I am not sure the images are going to show up. The object is about 1.5 inch long.See More

"Somehow my reply does not seem to have made it - perhaps because I tried to upload an image? I will try again. As I see it this woman could be making lace on a domed box type of pillow with a surface at the back to secure the finished…"

I am a lace maker and teacher. I am a member of the board of The Lace Museum, Sunnyvale, CA. I am a member of the Siskiyou lacemakers here in Oregon where I live. I enjoy trying many types of lace. Recently, I have researched the lace remnant found in Spiro Mounds, OK.

Give us titles of lace books or articles you have written, that you want us to know about.

"Recreating a Pre-Columbian North American Lace", IOLI Winter 2012 Bulliten

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Nice to hear from you. It was so nice to meet you, too, at Sacramento - owell, - we met at the Lace Museum!!

Actually going back to tatting now is good, it is nice to have something small to sit and do now and again. Split rings, Mock rings, and Split chains were not invented when I originally learned, - and I have just been shown how to do split rings, - and they are so useful!! Take up tatting again - for those quiet times of waiting around - like in Dr. waiting rooms - which we seem to do a lot recently!

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